Title
Resolution Approving a Grant of Easement to the Detroit Edison Company for Underground Electric Service Line (Located on Northerly Border of 350 S. Fifth Avenue) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
This resolution would approve a grant of easement to the Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation, for the construction and maintenance of underground electrical service across the northerly border of City-owned property at 350 S. Fifth Avenue, the site of the former YMCA, currently being used a public parking lot.
The new public parking structure to be constructed under S. Fifth Avenue and the City’s S. Fifth Avenue parking structure necessitates the relocation of electric service conduits that currently run north/south along Fifth Avenue and serve the Federal Building and the Library among other buildings. Detroit Edison Company will redesign this electric service to run east/west from Fourth Avenue to Fifth Avenue, and an easement is needed for the placement of this relocated service and installation of a new ground level transformer on the northerly border of the City’s 350 S. Fifth Avenue property. The proposed 10-foot wide easement route will not negatively impact the existing short-term use of the property or anticipated future redevelopment. Because the DDA’s structure project is triggering the need for this electric system relocation the cost for this work will be included in the parking structure project budget.
Staff
Prepared by: Susan Pollay, Ann Arbor DDA Executive Director
Reviewed by: Stephen K. Postema, City Attorney
Approved by: Roger W. Fraser, City Administrator
Body
Whereas, The Detroit Edison Company, a Michigan corporation, has requested an easement for the construction and maintenance of an underground electric service line, and ground level transformer to be located abutting the northerly border of the City of Ann Arbor’s property at 350 S. Fifth Avenue, for the purpose of relocating existing electric service in the 300 ...
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